5 papers
Can Prosodic Style Be Inferred from Text Alone? Evidence from Unsupervised Acoustic Clusters
Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiaosong Yang
Much of expressive text-to-speech research rests on an untested assumption that written text carries enough information to select an appropriate prosodic style for its delivery. Te…
From Triggers to Emotions: A CPM-Grounded Appraisal Multi-Agent for Dynamic Emotional Evolution in Persona-Based Dialogue
Jingyao Cai, Shuaijun Liu, Abdul Rehman +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially advanced persona-based dialogue agents for emotion-sensitive role simulation in healthcare, education, counseling, customer service,…
BFA: Real-time Multilingual Text-to-speech Forced Alignment
Abdul Rehman, Jingyao Cai, Jian-Jun Zhang +1
We present Bournemouth Forced Aligner (BFA), a system that combines a Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder (CUPE) with a connectionist temporal classification (CTC)based decoder.…
CUPE: Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder for Language-Agnostic Speech Processing
Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiaosong Yang
Universal phoneme recognition typically requires analyzing long speech segments and language-specific patterns. Many speech processing tasks require pure phoneme representations fr…
Preserving Empirical Probabilities in BERT for Small-sample Clinical Entity Recognition
Abdul Rehman, Jian Jun Zhang, Xiaosong Yang
Named Entity Recognition (NER) encounters the challenge of unbalanced labels, where certain entity types are overrepresented while others are underrepresented in real-world dataset…